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Electric Vehicles - Impact on electrical network. Survey of vehicle uptake.

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Dear IET forum,

I am carrying out research into the impacts of the projected surge of electric vehicle uptake on the local network infrastructure. The results will be used as part of my Technical report for Ceng. Please could you spare 2 minutes completing the survey in the link below? Its very short I assure you and completely anonymous. My aim is to understand a sample of peoples views on them personally taking up ownership of electric vehicles and if the pandemic may have changed their future car ownership behaviours. 

When complete i can post the results here and if you are interested make a comment and i can send you the finished technical report.

Much appreciated, thank you in advance.!
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CC7GJSB

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    Simon Barker:

    That doesn't work for the people who live in the city.  After a few shopping trips, and taking the kids to school, the battery will be flat and the car will be forced back to running on petrol or diesel.


    That's why plug-in hybrids were invented.  It doesn't take long to re-charge a modest size battery from the mains.  That way short city trips can be entirely on electric, and the engine only has to start up on long journeys.




    That's exactly how we use our hybrid VW Passat GTE, short trips to the shops, school runs, dog walks, playgrounds etc, all on 100% electric.

    If going longer distances I switch to Hybrid mode and let the car decide how best to use Electric/petrol. If we (remember to) plug it in after each journey it rarely goes flat, but with only about 20miles usable electric range when it does go flat it takes about 3hours to charge.

    Electricity costs 14.4p per kWh during the day and just 5p for four hours overnight so it works out cheaper than doing the same types of driving in the VW Golf 1.4Tsi we traded for the Passat GTE and it has the same petrol engine. 








     


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    Simon Barker:

    That doesn't work for the people who live in the city.  After a few shopping trips, and taking the kids to school, the battery will be flat and the car will be forced back to running on petrol or diesel.


    That's why plug-in hybrids were invented.  It doesn't take long to re-charge a modest size battery from the mains.  That way short city trips can be entirely on electric, and the engine only has to start up on long journeys.




    That's exactly how we use our hybrid VW Passat GTE, short trips to the shops, school runs, dog walks, playgrounds etc, all on 100% electric.

    If going longer distances I switch to Hybrid mode and let the car decide how best to use Electric/petrol. If we (remember to) plug it in after each journey it rarely goes flat, but with only about 20miles usable electric range when it does go flat it takes about 3hours to charge.

    Electricity costs 14.4p per kWh during the day and just 5p for four hours overnight so it works out cheaper than doing the same types of driving in the VW Golf 1.4Tsi we traded for the Passat GTE and it has the same petrol engine. 








     


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